Summer cocktails to make when entertaining at home

Make the most of your home bar this summer, and shake and stir your own cocktails.

When it comes time for a few refreshing cocktails there are quick and easy recipes aplenty for any spirit-based tipple. Summer holidays are the time to sit back, relax and let the bitters do the talking.

With these few recipes in hand, when it comes time to prepare for those summer braai’s, pool-side parties and patio evenings being a home mixologist is a breeze and you’re sure to be ‘the hostess with the most-est’!

Pink Gin. Picture by Andrew Barrow.

Pink gin

Ingredients

2 dashes Angostura aromatic bitters

60ml Gin

Garnish: lemon twist

Method

Splash a generous few drops of Angostura aromatic bitters into a glass.

Thereafter you roll them around until the inside is coated, pour out the excess and pour in the gin.